The more you know about Sandra Fluke...Update (Hope Carbonite backed up their old business model)

Now, imag­ine Fluke try­ing to defend this lan­guage about “het­ero­sex­ist” poli­cies in a pub­lic hear­ing, with Repub­li­can mem­bers of the com­mit­tee ques­tion­ing her about whether reli­gious insti­tu­tions (or pri­vate busi­nesses, or tax­pay­ers) should also be required to foot the bill for “gen­der reassignment.”

Con­grat­u­la­tions, Amer­ica: You’ve been scammed!

Ah but it has only been a short term scam, because of the increased inter­est in Rush’s show and the power of the new media the pop­u­lace will shortly know the facts on Miss Fluke much to the deter­ment of the left. I’m sure Rush’s late lamented adver­tis­ers will be delighted to be proudly defend­ing the state man­dat­ing sex change coverage.

And even worse, I sus­pect that while “pub­lic” women will con­tinue to pre­tend they are shocked SHOCKED by Limbaugh’s words, the seed that the dems are look­ing to get busi­ness and tax­pay­ers to sup­port an inter­est­ing set of sex­ual pro­cliv­i­ties for young women is there.

I strongly sug­gest that women have a dim view of this. I know Rox­eanne does:

Back in the Dark Ages, men used to buy women dia­monds before get­ting them into bed. Now that you’ve done away with that require­ment, how about at least ask­ing men to buy your Ortho Tri Cyclen? If you’re an equal part­ner, nego­ti­at­ing a sex­ual encounter, why are you so unequal that you’re the ones cry­ing to rich men in Con­gress for help, like Oliver Twist ask­ing for another serv­ing of food, while all the guys on Law Review are writ­ing their Notes and apply­ing to clerk­ships with­out a care in the world? And whose fault is that? Rick Santorum’s? Pope Bene­dict? or yours, for not hav­ing the basic self-​respect to tell Mr. Law Review that he’s not get­ting any unless he under­stands that “equal­ity” doesn’t mean that the woman buys the Pill and the con­doms, too?

Adri­enne : Thank you. Since your CEO has made it clear that he doesn’t care about my busi­ness because I lis­ten to Rush Lim­baugh (who is the one respon­si­ble for my sub­scrib­ing to Car­bonite in the first place) , I have decided to take my busi­ness else­where. Please con­vey the mes­sage to your man­agers and CEO.

As of the clos­ing bell on Mon­day, March 5th, 2012, Carbonite’s stock dropped to $9.15 per share. They actu­ally hit their 52 week (or one year) low dur­ing the trad­ing ses­sion of $9.09 per share. Oh, and the 52 week high for Car­bonite stock was $21.10. Seems like they have quite a busi­ness model run­ning there huh?

Maybe Car­bonite can restore their old busi­ness model from a pre­vi­ous backup?

Their God, if this is the way they want to look at it, keeps smash­ing them into lit­tle grease spots on the pavement

Hey pick­ing on vic­tims of peo­ple slaugh­tered and left home­less by tor­na­does is one thing but it cer­tainly doesn’t rise to the level of call­ing a polit­i­cal oper­a­tive mas­querad­ing as a poor stu­dent a ‘slut’, par­tic­u­larly since the dead and home­less are in fly­over country.

Now, imagine Fluke trying to defend this language about “heterosexist” policies in a public hearing, with Republican members of the committee questioning her about whether religious institutions (or private businesses, or taxpayers) should also be required to foot the bill for “gender reassignment.”

Congratulations, America: You’ve been scammed!

Ah but it has only been a short term scam, because of the increased interest in Rush’s show and the power of the new media the populace will shortly know the facts on Miss Fluke much to the determent of the left. I’m sure Rush’s late lamented advertisers will be delighted to be proudly defending the state mandating sex change coverage.

And even worse, I suspect that while “public” women will continue to pretend they are shocked SHOCKED by Limbaugh’s words, the seed that the dems are looking to get business and taxpayers to support an interesting set of sexual proclivities for young women is there.

I strongly suggest that women have a dim view of this. I know Roxeanne does:

Back in the Dark Ages, men used to buy women diamonds before getting them into bed. Now that you’ve done away with that requirement, how about at least asking men to buy your Ortho Tri Cyclen? If you’re an equal partner, negotiating a sexual encounter, why are you so unequal that you’re the ones crying to rich men in Congress for help, like Oliver Twist asking for another serving of food, while all the guys on Law Review are writing their Notes and applying to clerkships without a care in the world? And whose fault is that? Rick Santorum’s? Pope Benedict? or yours, for not having the basic self-respect to tell Mr. Law Review that he’s not getting any unless he understands that “equality” doesn’t mean that the woman buys the Pill and the condoms, too?

Adrienne : Thank you. Since your CEO has made it clear that he doesn’t care about my business because I listen to Rush Limbaugh (who is the one responsible for my subscribing to Carbonite in the first place) , I have decided to take my business elsewhere. Please convey the message to your managers and CEO.

As of the closing bell on Monday, March 5th, 2012, Carbonite’s stock dropped to $9.15 per share. They actually hit their 52 week (or one year) low during the trading session of $9.09 per share. Oh, and the 52 week high for Carbonite stock was $21.10. Seems like they have quite a business model running there huh?

Maybe Carbonite can restore their old business model from a previous backup?

Their God, if this is the way they want to look at it, keeps smashing them into little grease spots on the pavement

Hey picking on victims of people slaughtered and left homeless by tornadoes is one thing but it certainly doesn’t rise to the level of calling a political operative masquerading as a poor student a ‘slut’, particularly since the dead and homeless are in flyover country.

The company has an “accumulated deficit” (accountant-speak for “cumulative loss”) of $100 million.

Carbonite was rescued from insolvency by an IPO last summer.

Losing its Rush-relationship will leave it ever more vulnerable to the growing competition.

Beam me up, Mr. Speaker! … Carbonite’s kamikaze CEO has effectively cut his own throat to protest Limbaugh’s jokes about Sandra Fluke’s crusade to compel other people to pay for her and other Georgetown Law students’ birth control!

It would have been a much better project to go after the left-wing nutjobs who have done as bad or much worse than Rush Limbaugh then to try to defend him. Like going after Rolling Stone advertisers for Mr. Douche. At least Dennis Kucinich seems to have gotten the heave-ho in Ohio.

Here’s the thing: If Carbonite will cave so easily and so quickly, to a loud and thuggish minority, how can I trust them with my data?
What real power did these thugs have? Only what Carbonite gave them. The same subscribers that will now be leaving them ASAP (Limbaugh won’t even need to say a word, but it will happen) would have stuck with them AND encouraged more of their peers to use Carbonite if they had merely shown some spine. Once these people are gone… good luck getting them or people like them back.

With the cost of storage these days, I’m tempted to buy a few EMC racks and create a competing service targeted at just these folks that will be voting with their feet. Maybe use a variant of the Gadsen flag as the logo…

It is appalling how we expect women to treat themselves with so little respect. I would have thought that “he pays for half of the birth control” was not some arch-conservative position, but basic common sense (sort of like, “Don’t sleep with a guy you met three hours ago”). Sigh.

I read an interview somewhere with the CEO of Carbonite (I don’t believe it was a recent interview – I know, I know – lousy reporting!!), where he related the massive amount of money they lost every year and that it would be several more years before they even broke even. That should be enough to make anyone switch.

As to Mike Malloy? I just spent some time on his site trying to ascertain who his advertisers were.

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